History Flashcards
Define archaeology
Study of past cultures and analyzing human remains settlements,fossils,and artifacts
What does pre history mean
Before recorded
Paleolithic era characteristics
Hunter gathers
Developed clans
Cave art
Intro to stone tools
Neolithic era characteristics
Developed agriculture Made pottery Developed weaving Domesticated animals Oral language Written language
Four river vallys
Nile
Mesopotamia
India
Huang He
What’s another name for the cradle of civilization
Fertile Crescent
Who was Hammurabi
Babylonian king
Advancements of the harappan cities
two cities
Baths
Arithmetic
Trade
Written language
Harappa
Mohenjo Daro
Two rivers that influenced Indus River valley
Indus and Ganges
What civilization did the Aryan’s invade and what geographic place did they use
India
Khyper pass
What religion used the caste system
Hinduism
Who built the Great Wall of china
Han dynasty
Who were Darius Cyrus and Cambyses
Famous military leaders
What was the royal road used for
A path used to safely send messages to other emperors and for emperors to safely travel to other places
How did geography influence Greece
It has to split into provinces
Who was homer and what was the difference between the llidad and the odyssey
Homer was a blind poet
Illidad was about the Trojan war
Odyssey was the journey home
Democracy in Athens
Draco started first law
Solon outlawed slavery
Cleisthenes started it
Who were Romulus and Remus
Twin brothers raised by a she wolf
Difference between a republic and an empire
An empire is a huge city in which a republic type government can be the type of law
Patricians
The 10% of the population that is wealthy
Plebeians
Farmers labored and merchants only have 2 representatives
Apollo
God of sun light music
Julius Caesar
Famous military leader
Wealthy landowner
Pompey general
Triumvirate
A group of 3 men holding power together
Julius Caesar Pompey and Crassus
Antony Lepidus and Octavian
Augustus Caesar
Julius Caesars adopted son
Octavian
Emperor of Rome in 27bc
Pax Romana
Roman peace
Tiberius gracchus
One of men trying for social reform
Gaius gracchus
One of men trying for social reform
Crassus
Member of 1st triumvirate
Pompey
Member of 1st triumvirate
Gaul
A native or inhabitant of ancient Gaul
Mark Antony
Involved with Coleoptera
Marcus Lepidus
Political figure
Cleopatra
Involved with mark Antony
Juno
Goddess of love and marriage
Apollo
God of sun prophecy music
Diana
Goddess if wild animals and the hunt
Minerva
Goddess of poetry medicine wisdom
Venus
Goddess of love beauty and fertility
Jupiter
King if gods
God of sky and thunder
Colosseum
A large theater or stadium
Aqueduct
An artificial channel for conveying water
Pantheon
A building to honor the dead or people being burried
Roman baths
A building filled with complex rooms designed for bagging and socializing
Ptolemy
Green astronomer and mathematician
Aeneid
Latin epic by Vergil
